«About onethird of the world's population lives in countries
with moderate to high water stress. The problems are most acute
in Africa and West Asia but lack of water is already a major
constraint to industrial and socioeconomic growth in many other
areas, including China, India and Indonesia. If present
consumption patterns continue, two out of every three persons on
Earth will live in waterstressed conditions by the year 2025.
The declining state of the world's freshwater resources, in terms
of quantity and quality, may prove to be the dominant issue on
the environment and development agenda of the coming century.»

EUWARENESS is a research project on European Water Regimes and
the Notion of a Sustainable Status. It aims to contribute to the
implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive. The project
is supported by the European Commission under the 5th Framework
Programme, and coordinated by the University of Twente in the
Netherlands.